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' B. DREYFUS.

GARTER.

Patented Sept. 17,1895.

5114mm 3513x2 attozmm UNITED STATES PATENT.

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GARTER.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 546,420, dated September 17, 1895. Application filed May 12, 1894. Serial No. 511,061, (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BERNHARD DREYFUS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of Row York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garters, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved garter which is simple in construction and holds the article which it surrunds-such as a stocking, sleeve, diefirmly and securely in position without exerting undue inconvenient or unpleasant pressure on the leg, arm, or other part of the body on which said garter is applied.

lhe invention consists in the construction and combination of parts and details, as will be fully described hereinafter, and finally pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the views, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one construction of my improved garter, parts being broken away. Figs. 2, 4, 6, and S are face views of different constructions of the soft-rubber lining-strip. Figs. 3, 5, 7, and 9 are vertical transverse sectional views on the lines 3 3 of Fig. 2, 5 5 of Fig. 4, 7 7 of Fig. 6, and 9 9 of Fig.8, respectively.

The garter is composed of a suitable piece of webbing A, either elastic or non-elastic, or of leather, woven metal, or other material usually used for making garters. To the ends of the same the extensible or elastic pieces B are attached, which are composed of elastic webbing, as shown at the right-hand side of Fig. 1, or of aseries of helical springs a, suitably grouped and connected, as shown on the lei'i'rhand side of Fig.1. One end of the garter thus formed'is provided witha hook b and the other with an eye d, or any other well-known fastening or closing device can be attached to the garter in any well-known manner.

The garter is provided on its inner surface with a lining-strip D of soft vulcanized rubher or analogous substance, suitably fastened to the garter and provided on its exposed face with protuberances, ridges, or ribs.

In Fig. 1 the lining D is shown as extending only about half the length of the garter,

as part of the said lining has been omitted to show the inner surface of the web.

The rubber lining-strip D shown in Fig. 1 is provided on its exposed surface with pyramid-shaped projections e, made of soft rubber andintegral with the strip. In place of providing the strip on its exposed surface with the pyramid shaped projections it may be provided with a series of tapering protuberances or teats g, as shown in Figs. 2and 3, or with longitudinal ridges h, which are triangular in cross-sections, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, or with wavy ridges h, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, or with inclined ridges 71 as shown in Figs. 8 and 9. The projections, such as the teats or ridges, on the rubber strip engage the meshes of the stocking or other article on which the garter is applied and are pressed a greater or'less distance into the same, and thus hold the said article in place on the limbs or body.

The elastic garters used heretofore depended entirely on the tension in the direction of the length of the garter and on the transverse pressure exerted and the consequent friction produced thereby for holding the article in place. For smooth garments this pressure has to be considerable, and as a result thereof the garters cut deep into the skin and are frequently very painful and inconvenient, especially during warm weather. If the tension in the garter is decreased, the garter no longer exerts sufficient pressure to hold the article and both the garter and the article which itwas designed to hold slip from their place.

In my improved garter only sufficient tension is required to hold the garter snugly on the article on which it is applied, as the garter does not hold the article by exerting a greater transverse pressure on the same, but, on the contrary, holds it by slightly pressing the protuberances on therubber lining of the garter into engagement with the said article.

Belts and sleeve-holders, which are only a modified form of garters, can be made in the same manner. as the garters herein described.

1 am aware that rubber surfaces provided with projections have been used on rubber boots and shoes and that garters have been made in which the body portion is non-elastic and the end portions are elastic; but I do not small protnloerances', substantially as herein claim, broadly, to be the first inventor of such set forth. I r

features. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as Having thus described my invention, what my invention I have signed my name, in pres- I5 5 I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters once of two witnesses, this 10th day of May,

Patent, is- 1894.

In a garter the combination with a body T piece, of elasiic end pieces and fastening de- BERNHARD DREYFL vices attached thereto, and a soft rubber lin- Witnesses: to ing on said body piece, which lining is pro- OSCAR F. GUNZ,

l D. PETRI-PALMEDO.

vided on its exposed surface, throughout, with 

